“Shady” Medical Advice

This commercial for Symbicort looks fantastic. The silhouette concept worked great for the iPod, so why not for asthma medication?

But do you really want medical advice from some faceless shadow lady? I don’t know about you, but I prefer to get medical advice from people with faces. Well, people with faces or WebMD.

Sometimes I wish I were a faceless shadow when asking for medical advice though;)

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I bought a pair to watch my old TV with.

Taunting the Haunting

For some reason I ended up watching Ghost Hunters starring the guys from TAPS yesterday evening. I’m not a big fan of shows where they hunt ghosts, UFOs, or legendary monsters. Even if you commit yourself to watching the entire program, you’re never going to see anything more definitive than some yokel with a flashlight gasping, “What was that???” If anyone ever found real evidence of the afterlife, Bigfoot, or Bigfoot in the afterlife, you would hear about it on the news, not SciFi or the History Channel.

I let myself get sucked in anyway and watched the entire episode. It was good for a laugh or two and pretty much what I expected, but I nearly choked on my popcorn when they showed two TAPS investigators taunting a no-show spirit (a.k.a. an empty room). Here’s a transcript of the best part.

………..

[A male and female member of TAPS are sitting next to each other on the floor of a dark and supposedly haunted bedroom, addressing the room/ghost.]

TAPS Guy: Are you too much of a wimp to do anything with us here now?

Room/Ghost:

TAPS Girl: You need to show us that you hear us right now.

Room/Ghost:

TAPS Guy: Why don’t you get all rough and tough with us?

TAPS Girl: You do realize that after tonight you’re gettin’ cast out of here? So you might as well make your last grandstand right now.

Room/Ghost:

TAPS Girl: I think whatever it is that’s in here is just scared and cowardly and doesn’t have the gonads to do anything else. You need to not be such a coward.

Room/Ghost:

………..

I think that ghost handled himself pretty well. Most entities would probably get all riled up by those hurtful words and start turning the closet into a gateway to Hell or something. But he kept his cool and made the TAPS investigators look like a pair of chumps. Sweet.

Watch the first 30 seconds or so of this clip to witness the stupidy for yourself.